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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2024
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Richard Norris, Whitchurch, GB;
David W. Boertjes, Nepean, CA;
CIENA CORPORATION, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, responsive to a request for an end-to-end service, obtaining power-related data for each of a plurality of network elements, identifying a set of candidate service routes that is each associated with a respective subset of the plurality of network elements, for each of the candidate service routes, calculating at least one power metric based on the power-related data of each network element in the respective subset associated with that candidate service route, resulting in a plurality of power metrics, and presenting or utilizing the plurality of power metrics to facilitate selection of a desirable service route from the set of candidate service routes for the end to end service. Other embodiments are disclosed.